No women in AAP ministry is disappointing, says CPI-M's Brinda Karat
February 17, 2015  14:47
Communist Party of India-Marxists Brinda Karat slammed the Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi for not including any women in their cabinet.

She said, No women in the AAP ministry after its stupendous victory in Delhi is disappointing.

The explanation that it is because of the legal limit of seven in the number of ministerial berths (implying thereby that there is no woman who would qualify as a choice in the first list) sounds familiar.

She added, There is always a justification. We are told that women will be included in important roles in the Chief Minister's Office, where policy decisions will be made. Here, we see a novel extension to the political sphere of domestic cultures of women's invisible work: behind every successful man there is a woman, in this case, behind every successful government are women.
 
The AAP government shares these laurels with seven such other brother state governments, where there are no women ministers.

With the lack of women in the cabinet, Delhi joins the ranks of seven other states with no women ministers.
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